By Seun Opejobi President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has accused the Academic Staff Uni...
By Seun Opejobi
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social
Media, Lauretta Onochie, has accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, of blackmailing governments in Nigeria.
To this end, Onochie urged the National Assembly to enact
laws that would mandate ASUU to pay the salaries of striking members.
Onochie said it is unfair for ASUU executives to live off
the union’s dues alone.
In a tweet, Onochie wrote: “ASUU has blackmailed every
government in Nigeria. The National Assembly should enact a law that mandates
ASUU to pay the salaries of striking members.
“The current situation where ASUU executives alone, live off
Union Dues leaving members high and dry, is unfair to their members.”
ASUU has been on strike since February 2022 over the Federal
Government’s inability to fulfil its 2009 agreements.
The lingering strike is also a result of the government’s refusal to accept the UTAS software developed by the union for payment of lecturers’ salaries.
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